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| Sinead O'Connor – I Am Stretched on Your Grave Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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@[InfiniteHeart:47921] I like this interpretation the best. I’m not sure what the song is actually about, being an old ballad going back centuries, but in thinking of Sinead, it feels right that the girl she loved as a child is herself a grown woman because her relationship with her own mom was not a positive one, from what I gather. |
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| Sinead O'Connor – Troy Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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Me and this song go way way back… this and Jackie are two exquisite masterpieces. It wouldn’t matter who sang them or performed them or wrote them— but that they are done by the same brilliant light that is Sinead O’Connor means that as a teenager, the woman had to have been so gifted and driven…. At any rate— for a long time I thought this song was about a lover, but I see it differently depending on what my own point of reference is. “Do you want me? Or should I leave?” Sounds more like a kid, maybe trying to fit in with a mixed family. The comparison of another woman, too, could very well be (as other commenters have stated) a step-mother. I like the reference to the yeats poem, but more than that, Troy was a city that the Greeks burned to the ground via a “gift-horse” filled with their soldiers. They did this because Paris of Troy ran off with Helen, the wife of the king of Sparta. I think the equivalency here to Sinead’s life could be that an affair ended her parents’ marriage and their fmaily was destroyed….but she will rise, and return, she will learn…. She isn’t going to let all of her parents’ drama burn her again. The girl that she was then no longer exists. Or something like that. Really missing Sinead and really wishing I could just ask her. But she was such a baby when she wrote this. Beautiful elegy to her family of origin and the torrid mothering she received. That’s my 2 cents on it anyway. Enjoy. |
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